The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-11-10
THE ELECTIONS.

THE ELECTlON6 ::
Tuesdays election went lust as ex'
pected." Iowa 1000 to 10000 republi
can; New York 10000 democratic and
Ohio republican by 10000 to 25,00o.
Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Penn
sylvania and Nebraska give republican
maj"rities, while, strange AS it may
seem, Virginia, Maryland and Missis'
sippi 60 democratic.
NOT LO0D BUT DEEP.
No execution ever set in America
has awakened u tithe of the deep feel.
ing or the sympathy awakened by the
approaching execution Of the seven
condemned anarchists. Guilty or not
gnilty. murderers or martyrs, heroes or
common desperadoes, the working peo.
pie have come to look upon these men
rs dying lin case they die upon the
s:affol.i) in the cause of labor aud lib
erty. AS ths time for the execution
approaches, petitions by the. hundred
and delegations by the score from all
parts 1T the country are pouring iu
upon Gov. O.l-sby to commute the
sentence; picked delegations from the
anarchist ass"cia, ions in different cit
les are quietly going up to Chicago;
bhilanthropists, ministers. editors and
makers Of public sentiment. who were
before inactive or silent, are now NAV
ing and speaking in behalf Of mercy
and against the killing of these men.
The popular verdict IS therefore al
ready made up. The seven (by-the-
way u sacred and mystical nnmber) are
already made the martyrs of great
cause. Lincoln said that for every
dro? Of blood shed by the lash under
slavery. drop of white blood might
have to flow in the war for the union.
For every one OF the seven anarchists
hanged, no doubt seventy times seven
anarchists will spring up to avenge
their execution.
Gov. McGill declines to call an extra
session Of the legislature. He has
been urged to issue such y call for tie
purpose OF redistricting the state ami
ais" to pass law providing for the
removal Of county seats. The govern
or says he urged the matter of red,s-
tricting upon the legislature when it
was in session, and as to the county
seat matter he says:
The situation on the county seat
matter, briefly, IS this: The su preme
court recently declared the law of 1885,
providing for the removal OF county
seats. to be uncOnstitutiOnal,a and that
the amendment to the constitution
adopted in 1881. relating to the sub
ject. abrogated entirely the provision
relating to county seat removals. So
there is no existing law on the subject.
Until the legislature enacts q law, it
will be impossible to legally remove
any county seat in the state. But l
take it that no substantial interest
will materially suffer in even the lin
tied number Of counties where the re-
moval Of the county seat is an issue,
between now and the time the legisla.
ture meets in regular session.
The governor of Louisiana called out
the militia because the laborers on
some sugar plantations and in some
sugar factories demanded an increase
from 81 to 81 .25 day. Tell you, work
ingmen can't fool around in the south
as they can in the north. As some of
the southern editors said about Bleth.
en- after the recent Tribune article,
down south he would have been
promptly horse-whipped or shot. They
would have then discovered that they
had killed the wrong man, as they did
when they hanged the governors son
In Missouri, and would have "regret-
ted their mistake.'' Still, these high
toned, hot-blooded "Sothrons" can't
afford to wait to get the right man.
They must act promptly and ''preserve
their kOnaw, sah." As the two Kun.
nels" said to each other: First KunnelI
-''Shall pay this exawbitant bill2'
Second Kunnell-"Yes, sah, pay that
bill and then shoot the landlawd. Your
honaw must be preserved"
Tie laboring man has u hard row to
hoe anywhere, but it is especially so if
1t Is = cotton or = sugar row.
The ADVANCE feels glad and some.
what proud that it has got into such a
good)y company of mercifnl men and
women. We have been denounced as
= ''crank'' with ''dangerous'' views
Tor steadily saying word in behalf of
the seven condemned anarchists. or
rather against the deep damnation
OF their taking OFF, on the scaffold.
THIS we have done from the day of the
verdict. Others did not speak so soon
nor so frequently, but thousands are
now coming to the front nobly. No
such protest ever went up before. Let
the opposers Of the death penalty take
heart.
Tomorrow the Anarchists will hang
unless the governor reprievessor CON-
mutes. The latest is that Fiel,len will
undoubtedly be saved from the GAL
lows and the other cases are before the
governor and in doubt. IN ..~
ENDURANCE OF SOCIETY PEOPLE.
A prominent society lady of Wash.
ingt0n, being asked by the Prince of